Arshak

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Armenian origin

Arshak has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2019. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2019, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Arshak, 2019

1 in 694,000

Arshak over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arshak: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Armenian origin

Armenian

What Arshak means

Arshak is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Arshak is used in English. Its origins include Armenian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Arshak between 2019 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2019; its best national rank was #12,296 in 2019.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Arshak?

Arshak had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019: 1 in 694,000; 5 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only: 1 in 359,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 481,354 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Arshak sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arshak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arshaks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arshak was born before 2019 — so the typical Arshak is around 6 today.

Median birth year: 2019; About 6 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Arshak rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2019 (5)
Years since peak: 6; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #12,296; 2019

Spellings of Arshak

Arshak is not the most common spelling — Marshal is, with 42.8% against Arshak's 0.04%.

Marshal42.8%5,485
Arham17.0%2,181
Akshay14.1%1,808
Darshan6.0%773
Arsh5.9%758
Akshar4.8%621
Akshaj4.8%611
Ashar4.5%574

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Arshak by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #12,296; 2019
Peak year: 2019; 5 that year
First recorded: 2019
Last recorded: 2019
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Arshak

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Arsiyah Arshag Arseno Arshon Arsenios Arseny Arsham Arshman Arsyn Arsam Arsene Arshith Arshiv Arsin Arsenial Arsiah Arsha Arshveer Arsalaan Vishak Arshaan Arson Arshad Arsal

Sibling names for Arshak

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Keren Leena Nala Kairi Emani Kamilah Elliot Royalty

For a brother

Joziah Ishaan Khalid Torin Kamryn Leighton Simeon Turner

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